“…Se graduó en 1934 por el Whittier College de California, (12 millas de Los Angeles), y en 1937 por la Duke University Law School. Alistado en la Marina en 1942, sirvió en el Pacífico Sur durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. …”

“…From the opening of his Paris fashion house in 1937 until his retirement in 1968, Balenciaga's visionary, ever-evolving designs and impeccable standards seduced generations of the most iconic, best-dressed women in the world, including the Duchess of Windsor, Gloria Guinness, Pauline de Rothschild, Mona Bismarck, Princess Grace of Monaco, Doris Duke, Diana Vreeland, and Queen Fabiola of Belgium. …”

“…As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature -- Solapa…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- YOUTH Aet. 1-25-1469-94 -- OFFICE Aet. 25-43-1494-1512 -- LITERATURE AND DEATH Aet. 43-58-1512-27 -- THE MAN AND HIS WORKS -- DEDICATION -- CHAPTER I HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE -- CHAPTER II CONCERNING HEREDITARY -- CHAPTER III CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES -- CHAPTER IV WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, -- CHAPTER V CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN -- CHAPTER VI CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES -- CHAPTER VII CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES -- CHAPTER VIII CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE -- CHAPTER IX CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY -- CHAPTER X CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE -- CHAPTER XI CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL -- CHAPTER XII HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE -- CHAPTER XIII CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED -- CHAPTER XIV THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT OF WAR -- CHAPTER XV CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES -- CHAPTER XVI CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND -- CHAPTER XVII CONCERNING CRUELTY AND -- CHAPTER XVIII(*) CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH -- CHAPTER XIX THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED -- CHAPTER XX ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES -- CHAPTER XXI HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN -- CHAPTER XXII CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES -- CHAPTER XXIII HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE -- CHAPTER XXIV WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE -- CHAPTER XXV WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN -- CHAPTER XXVI AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY -- DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS ADOPTED BY THE DUKE VALENTINO WHEN MURDERING -- THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA -- Book Club Discussion Guide -- Book Club Discussion Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Religion, Spirituality, and Health: The Duke Experience -- PART IV: IN SEARCH OF METHUSELAH: POPULATION PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND LONGEVITY -- 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Scott Fitzgerald and the Gothic Jazz Age; Late Collegiate Gothic at Duke and Rhodes; Cathedrals of Learning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…National Myth, and the Legacy of Colonized ArtifactsSonja Dobroski -- THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese Contention Guya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho and Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Chapter 7 Signature, Performance, Contention Hunter Dukes -- Chapter 8 Policing bodies: The role of bodywork and symbolic objects in police violence during the Toronto G20 Valerie Zawilski -- Chapter 9 Bodies on fire: Self-immolation as spectacle in contentious politics Dennis Zuev -- THE LEGACY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 10 El Che: The (im)possibilities of a political symbol Eric Selbin -- Chapter 11 Mekap - A social history of the 'terrorist shoe' that fought ISIS Dilar Dirik -- Chapter 12 Biafran Objects and Contention in Nigeria Scholastica Ngozi Atata & Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale -- Chapter 13 The mask as political symbol: On the ritualization of political protest through mask wearing BjOrn Thomassen & Lone Riisgaard -- CONCLUSION -- Advancing the Study of Objects in Contention Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner -- Contributors -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…National Myth, and the Legacy of Colonized Artifacts Sonja Dobroski -- THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese ContentionGuya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho and Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Chapter 7 Signature, Performance, Contention Hunter Dukes -- Chapter 8 Policing bodies: The role of bodywork and symbolic objects in police violence during the Toronto G20 Valerie Zawilski -- Chapter 9 Bodies on fire: Self-immolation as spectacle in contentious politics Dennis Zuev -- THE LEGACY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 10 El Che: The (im)possibilities of a political symbol Eric Selbin -- Chapter 11 Mekap - A social history of the 'terrorist shoe' that fought ISIS Dilar Dirik -- Chapter 12 Biafran Objects and Contention in NigeriaScholastica Ngozi Atata & Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale -- Chapter 13 The mask as political symbol: On the ritualization of political protest through mask wearing BjOrn Thomassen & Lone Riisgaard -- CONCLUSION -- Advancing the Study of Objects in Contention Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner -- Contributors -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Osorio, Wellesley College -- Festivals and hagiography in the Spanish court (1565-1615) : the Veræ effigies of Counter-Reformation saints, from models to miracles / Juan Luis González García, University Autónoma of Madrid -- Corpus Christi in Spanish Palermo : Baroque apparati by Paolo and Giacomo Amato during the government of the Duke of Uceda (1687-1696) / Sabina di Cabi, University of Córdoba -- IV. …”

“…The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. …”